1.   Among Palestinian extremists, Marxist ideology has given way to Islamic fervor.

2.   An article on Tuesday in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, about Web sites created in the last few months by Palestinian Islamic extremists, supported that theory.

3.   Arafat, too, is challenged by Palestinian extremists who accuse him of compromising too much with Israel.

4.   As Israeli military pressure on Yasser Arafat eased fractionally on Thursday, the pressure on him from Palestinian extremists grew.

5.   As the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin realized, to demand an absolute surcease is to issue Palestinian extremists a permanent veto.

6.   He also insists on the re-arrest of Palestinian extremists from the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements who were released this past week.

7.   He also warned that Israel would strike back at Palestinian extremists responsible for violence against Israelis.

8.   If Palestinian extremists use bombing to strike at the peace process, they happened on an especially poignant victim this time.

9.   Israeli officials indicated Thursday that if Arafat ultimately went after Palestinian extremists, the Israeli government might resume communicating with him.

10.   It remains unclear at this writing if Arafat will succeed in his crackdown on Palestinian extremists.